So wait. Explain. You shut down digital or analog gear and it would not fire up again?
That does not make sense to me. A sitting automobile without gaskets, rubber, oil needing parts being lubricated deteriorating makes sense. A computer though? They like being cold. As cold a possible...
yeah..I was only asking if I could use a remote switch for my monitors.
Guys......put a quality line monitor on your ac power line.....one that records occurrences. Incoming commercial ac power has constant fluctuations in amperage and voltage and any number of line noise issues over time. Digital components are susceptible to all of these issues which can and do degrade life expectancy to some degree. AC power is far from clean or stable. We're all aware of the obvious damaging surge or power drop...........but less obvious changes and or "noises" happen all the time and many components are degraded by that over time.
Could that mean a component might last 98 years instead of 100? Sure........but it could also mean MUCH earlier failure.
All I'm saying is.......at least be sure to have some sort of quality ac power protection and conditioning if you want to leave your equipment on all the time.